The Road to World War 3

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MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE
13:21 15.08.2015(updated 13:29 15.08.2015) Get short URL
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The Naval Cooperation 2015 (II) military exercises will be held by the Russian and Chinese Navies on August 20-28. According to the Chinese Defense Ministry, the drills are aimed at bolstering strategic cooperation between the two countries.

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Russian Missile Forces in Kamchatka Put on High Alert for Live-Fire Drills
Seven Chinese naval ships set sail on Saturday from the port of Qingdao and headed to the Japanese Sea where joint Russian-Chinese naval drills are scheduled to kick off on August 20.

On August 20-28, Russia and China will hold the Naval Cooperation 2015 (II) military exercises in the waters of Peter the Great Gulf and the Sea of Japan.
The Chinese side will be represented by the Shengyang and Taizhou destroyers, the Linyi and Hengyang frigates, Changbaishan and Yunwushan amphibious ships as well as the Taihu support ship. In addition, six helicopters, five fixed-wing aircraft and 200 troops will be involved, Xinhua reported.


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Russian Navy to Hold Joint Drills With Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said a total of 20 warships and support vessels along with naval aviation aircraft will take part in the drills.

On August 20, the Chinese ships are expected to reach Russia’s Vladivostok where a series of sports and cultural events are planned to be held.
The Chinese Defense Ministry earlier underscored that the exercises are aimed to "bolster the comprehensive strategic cooperation and partnership between Russia and China, and to increase the military capabilities of both countries to counter maritime threats."[/size]

Cujem da je drill prilicno zabrinuo amere..

pa sigurno im nije bilo drago.u medjuvremenu u koreji...

http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150820/1025958793/korea-fire-exchange.html

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150822/1026076063/china-russia-alliance-challenge-us.html#ixzz3ja1M0HHk

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ASIA & PACIFIC
02:38 04.09.2015(updated 08:25 04.09.2015) Get short URL
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China is building two aircraft carriers, according to a new report by the Taiwanese Defense Ministry, as Beijing nears what some experts say is its goal of deploying domestic-built carriers by 2020.

The report on the capabilities of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), a copy of which was obtained by Reuters, says the two new carriers will be the same size as China's only carrier, the Liaoning. China purchased the 60,000-ton Soviet-era vessel from Ukraine in 1998.

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China Military Cuts Demonstrate Commitment to Peace

China has since refitted the Liaoning, which has participated in military drills, including in the disputed South China Sea, but it is not fully operational. Some military experts believe having an operational Liaoning is the first step to deploying Chinese-built carriers by 2020.
The report did not give an estimated date for when the new carriers would be completed. But as carriers are commissioned for service into China's navy, a command unit would be set up with "the goal to unify power and accelerate combat capabilities," the report added.
Taiwanese intelligence agencies closely monitor Chinese military developments because Beijing has never renounced the use of force to reclaim what it deems a renegade province, Reuters reported.

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According to the report, of China's 1.24 million-strong ground forces, 400,000 could be used in combat against the island.
The Taiwanese Defense Ministry's report adds that Beijing is at least preparing for some kind of conflict with Taipei. The PLA and Chinese special forces have held mock battles, featuring full-scale models of a Taiwanese airport, actual roads, government buildings, and even the president's office, the report said.
Ties between the countries have improved under Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou. Still, China has threatened to use force to take back Taiwan if the island ever declares its independence.
Taiwan has been self-ruled since 1949 when Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan with his Nationalist forces after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's Communists.[/size]


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OPINION
18:00 19.09.2015(updated 21:53 19.09.2015) Get short URL
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According to State and Defense Department sources speaking to Foreign Policy, the Pentagon is "dusting off," reevaluating and updating its contingency plans for war with Russia. The publication explains why all of this is Russia's fault, and where things may go from here.

The article, written by well-known Russian politics critic and self-confessed RussophobeJulia Ioffe, explains this is "the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union" that the Pentagon has decided to review and update its contingency plans for war with Russia, based on revised appraisals of the country as a potential threat, rather than a potential partner, to NATO. 
The reason for the Pentagon's rush to update its war plans is, ostensibly, Russia's 'annexation' of Crimea, referring to the referendum held in the territory in the aftermath of the Maidan coup d'état in Kiev in early 2014, which saw the peninsula breaking off from Ukraine and joining Russia. It also includes Russia's 'invasion' of eastern Ukraine, referring to the repeated allegations made by officials in Kiev that between nine and 200,000 regular Russian troops are engaged militarily in the eastern breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.


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An unnamed senior defense official familiar with the updated plans told FP that "given the security environment, given the actions of Russia, it has become apparent that we need to make sure to update the plans that we have in response to any potential aggression against any NATO allies." 

The official did not comment and presumably was not asked about whether the US's policy of supporting regime change in Kiev against an unpopular but democratically elected president in February 2014 may have had anything to do with Russia's response to the Ukraine crisis, and thus with the deterioration of relations between Washington and Moscow.
FP emphasized that the new plans are a response to a drastic departure from NATO-Russia relations which emerged following the collapse of the Soviet Union, where for many years Moscow acceded to the alliance's march eastward, signing defense and cooperation agreements, holding "joint military exercises, regular consultations, and even [opening] a NATO transit point in Ulyanovsk, Russia, for materiel heading to the fight in Afghanistan." Prior to the crisis in Ukraine, Russia was "neither a danger nor a priority."
The official explained that the new plans, each having to do with hypothetical Russian aggression against the Baltic states (naturally), have two tracks, one focusing on US action against Russia in coordination with NATO, and the other considering the US acting independently of the alliance.


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As Ioffe explains, "both versions of the updated contingency plans focus on Russian incursions into the Baltics, a scenario seen as the most likely front for new Russian aggression." Moreover, "they are increasingly focusing not on traditional warfare, but on the hybrid tactics Russia used in Crimea and eastern Ukraine: 'little green men', manufactured protests, and cyber warfare." Taken together, this is said to comprise "a significant departure from post-Cold War US defense policy."

If FP's estimation of the new thinking going into the Pentagon's war plans against Russia is correct, it remains uncertain just how the Russian military's 'little green men' would find their way into the Baltic states, given that unlike Crimea, where the Russian military had a long-term base agreement to host Russia's Black Sea Fleet, Moscow does not have any military bases in any of the Baltic countries. 
As far as Russia using the sneaky hybrid warfare methods of 'manufactured protests' and sending unidentified little green men to capture key positions in regional government, as has been alleged in eastern Ukraine, it seems that the Pentagon's planners simply cannot fathom the idea that people in some regions of an ethnically and socially divided country (like Ukraine) could have launched organic protests and organized self-defense forces following declarations from post-coup authorities in the capital that banning the Russian language and crushing counterrevolutionary resistance would be among their first priorities.
Wargame Fail
Foreign Policy explains with worry that since last year, repeated wargame scenario testing by the Rand Corporation for the US government of a hypothetical Russian 'hybrid invasion' of Estonia and Latvia has found that NATO would not be able to defend those countries at present force levels.
Citing commentary by Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Development David Ochmanek, who now works at Rand and is involved in the simulations, FP noted that "given the recent reductions in the defense budgets of NATO member countries and American pullback from the region," NATO would be "outnumbered 2-to-1 in terms of manpower, even if all the US and NATO troops stationed in Europe were dispatched to the Baltics –including the 82nd Airborne, which is supposed to be ready to go on 24 hours' notice and is based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina."


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The Myth of a Russian 'Threat'
Citing hours of games involving the various scenarios which consistently resulted in a Russian victory, Ochmanek explained that "we just don't have those forces in Europe. The conclusion was that we are unable to defend the Baltics."

FP notes that even "working on the assumption that the United States and NATO had already started making positive changes to their force posture in Europe," presumably via a massive increase in the NATO men and heavy equipment present along Russia's western borders, "the conclusion was slightly more upbeat, but not by much." Ochmanek noted that NATO "can defend the capitals, we can present Russia with problems, and we can take away the prospect of a coup de main. But the dynamic remains the same." The problem, in the defense analyst's view, is the 'logistics of distance', as well as the time necessary to mobilize the US military contingent meant to defend the Baltics. 
What Russia would possibly have to gain from attacking a NATO member, which raises the prospect of immediate nuclear and conventional retaliation from a numerically and military superior adversary, without the prospect of gains of any strategic importance, remains unclear, but it seems that the Pentagon's take on the matter is that until NATO has conventional superiority over Russia on Russia's own frontiers, the threat of the Russian bear will remain intolerably disturbing.


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Ghost of Cold War: Pentagon Boss Brands Russia 'Very Significant Threat'
The good news for hawkish-minded analysts in Washington appears to be that the Defense Department has factored the results of the wargaming thought experiments into their planning, the unnamed senior official telling FP that the results will be used "to better understand a situation that few of us have thought about in detail for a number of years," adding that even as things are at present, "I have no doubt that NATO will prevail and that we will restore the territorial integrity of any NATO member."

In any case, Ioffe suggests that the Pentagon's updating of its war plans against Russia is actually Russia's fault, playing "right into Putin's paranoid fantasies about a showdown between Russia and NATO or between Russia and the United States." The columnist bouoyantly suggests that the Pentagon's plans are signals, "to Russia that the United States is not sitting on its hands," and to US policymakers "that the Pentagon feels that [military cutbacks hobble] its ability to deal with the new threat landscape."[/size]


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Britanija u strahu od modernizacije ruske mornarice (VIDEO)

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Ruska vojna avijacija dobija 140 najmodernijih aviona i helikoptera (VIDEO)

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[size=34]Prepare to be Terminated: Russia readies first robot tank, shows off Armata at arms expo[/size]
Published time: 10 Sep, 2015 16:31
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Russia’s military says it is ready to start producing a fully autonomous armored combat system to operate on the battlefield with only remote control and support from personnel. This system is Russia’s T-14 Armata tank.
“The future belongs to unmanned [battle] vehicles. To ensure transition to fully robotic machines, we must achieve new levels of automatization, and secure the principles of remote control,” Andrey Terlikov, the chief designer of the T-14 Armata tank, told RT.
“This vehicle has everything necessary to take the decisive step towards remotely controlled autonomous combat vehicles," he added.
So, is Armata going to fight by itself? Not just yet, the designer says, but soon. "Armata is a manned tank, but its ability to operate without crew is a matter of the immediate future,” Terlikov said.
Russia’s military has shown off the Armata tank for the Zvezda military TV channel.

Christopher Foss, Editor at Jane's Defense weekly, said it was very impressive to see the Armata tank and the T-50 5G fighter jet at the ongoing Russia Arms Expo 2015 in Nizhny Tagil.
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There are many other defense exhibitions around the world, yet few of them have a firepower and mobility demonstration, so to see vehicles performing was of particular interest, Foss said.
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“For an hour and a half your potential customers see the vehicles being put through their paces and firing their weapons… in that respect it’s unique,” Foss told RT.
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